Mounting for fabric-supports.



G. K. WARREN.

MOUNTING FOR name SUPPORTS.

APPLICATION FILED 111K326, 1911.

1,010,545, Patented Dec. 5, 1911.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES K. WARREN, OF THREE OAKS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE WARREN FEATHERBONE COMPANY, OF THREE OAKS, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MOUNTING FOR FABRIC-SUPPORTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES K. WARREN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Three Oaks, in the county of Berrien and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mountings for Fabric-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

Fabric supports of'the character herein shown and described, consisting of bent sections of wire or other resilient material having a suitable coating or covering, are generally mounted upon sections of cardboard. This form of mounting is objectionable because if a customer desires a less number of supports than contained on one mounting, the supports have to be individually wrapped together and thus may be easily lost.

I have devised a mounting which not only keeps a plurality of supports together whereby they may be conveniently wrapped up, but one or as many as desired may be easily separated and removed from their mountings as required.

A further advantage of my invention resides in mounting supports on suitable bands which may be used for a cushion or tip for the support.

My improved mounting also illustrates to the user the method of attaching the supports to fabric if it is not desired to use the mounting itself.

To these ends the invention consists in the structure to be hereinafter more fully described and shown in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved mounting to which a plurality of fabric supports are secured. Fig. 2 is a plan view of an individual fabric support separate from the continuous mounting.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, the fabric supports 3 are each constructed of a single piece of resilient material, having a suitable covering or coating and constitute no part of my invention, eX- cept in so far as they are used in combination with the mounting therefor. As all the supporrts herein shown are of the same construction, the description of one will serve for all.

Each support has a hook end 4 which, in

the preferred form, lies substantially at I right angles to the long axis of the support.

The mountings consist of fabric bands 5 and 6 which may be of any desired length and are of suflicient width to be folded upon both sides of the hook ends 4 of the fabric supports and the edges of which are stitched together along the line 7 The stitching or sewing together of the two edges of the fabric 5 securely holds the hook ends 4: within the bands. The fabric supports are placed in parallel relation, suitably spaced apart so that an individual support or any number thereof may be separated from the other supports which are upon the same mounting, by severing the bands 5 and 6 substan.-. tially intermediate the fabric support or supports intended to be used and the adjacent fabric support on the continuous mounting.

It is contemplated that a plurality of fabric supports shall be secured between parallel bands, each band being continuous, and the number of fabric supports desired by a customer can be counted and cut from the continuous mounting. The number of fabric supports thus severed from the continuous mounting are therefore upona common mounting and may be conveniently folded together without liability of one or more supports becoming separated from the remaining supports upon the same mount- 111g.

It is intended, in the preferred form, that the fabric mounting shall be of such material-as may be used for forming a cushion or tip to the end of the fabric support, which heretofore users of supports of this character have independently produced. It will be readily seen that when an individual support is severed from the common mounting, as shown in Fig. 2, the two sections of the mounting at the ends of the support may be used either in flattened condition or by folding the ends of the mounting, and thereby forming a convenient attaching means for securing the supports to the fabric to be supported by the same.

If it is not desired to use the mounting as an attaching means it can readily be removed from the hook ends of the fabric support. If the mounting is not used as an attaching means, it, nevertheless, serves the purpose of illustrating to the user the manner in which an attaching means may be secured to the ends of the fabric support or to the fabric alone.

It is obvious that any number of fabric supports may be secured to continuous mountings and therefore I do not wish it to be understood that I am limited to the number of fabric supports herein shown in the drawing, or a less number, nor do I wish it to be understood that I am limited to a construction wherein the mountings are secured at the ends of the fabric supports, as one or more mountings might be attached to the fabric supports intermediate of their ends without in any way departing from the spirit of the invention; although the many advantages of such a construction as herein shown would not be attained unless the mounting is attached at the ends of the supports.

Therefore, without confining myself to the particular details of construction illustrated in the drawing,I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a mounting for fabric supports comprising, in

combination, a plurality of fabric supports and flexible bands, to which the ends of said supports are secured.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a

mounting for fabric supports comprising, in combination, a plurality of fabric supports and flexible bands covering the ends thereof, whereby said bands hold said supports in fixed relation. 3. As a new article of manufacture, a mounting for fabric supports, comprising, in combination, a plurality of wire fabric supports arranged in parallel relation and each support having its ends bent at substantially right angles to the axis of its body and fabric bands enfolding the ends of said supports, the marginal edges of said bands being stitched together whereby the bent ends of said supports are confined within said bands.

CHARLES K. WVARREN.

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